Chinese cabbage is an important dietary source of numerous phytochemicals, including glucosinolates and anthocyanins. The selection and development of elite Chinese cabbage cultivars with favorable traits is hindered by a long breeding cycle, a complex genome structure, and the lack of an efficient plant transformation protocol. Thus, a protoplast transfection-based transformation method may be useful for cell-based breeding and functional studies involving Chinese cabbage plants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the annotation and analysis of the draft genome sequence of Brassica rapa accession Chiifu-401-42, a Chinese cabbage. We modeled 41,174 protein coding genes in the B. rapa genome, which has undergone genome triplication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genic multiple-allele inherited male-sterile gene Ms in Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L.) was identified as a spontaneous mutation. Applying this gene to hybrid seed production, several B.
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